Before you can improve something, you need to have a clear understanding on its current state and if you don’t hate the current state of affairs, you can’t be insightful and objective enough to be of any help.
The most effective and insightful critics of a thing are the ones who love that thing (e.g. a good theater critic loves theater).
If you don’t love your society in spite of all of its flaws, then you aren’t in the right headspace to contribute to fixing it. You can’t be trusted to do so with care.
The most effective and insightful critics of a thing are the ones who love that thing (e.g. a good theater critic loves theater)
That doesn’t really apply to a system that’s corrupt by design, though. All of the people who love the political system the most are the same ones that benefit from the corrupt status quo persisting.
If you don’t love your society in spite of all of its flaws, then you aren’t in the right headspace to contribute to fixing it. You can’t be trusted to do so with care.
Loving the society/country in general ≠ loving the political system. A great example would be patriots like Michael Moore tirelessly working to expose the rot so that it can be fixed rather than continue to destroy the society/country.
You need someone who loves the country but hates the corruption of the system.
Correct. I fell for this trap for years, thinking I was making a difference getting engaged in political arguments. The truth is, I gained very little from this. While it might feel good to put your opinion out there (and practice defending it), the truth is, most people understand little to nothing about how the system works, so most of that time will literally go to waste.
In fact, it will probably be worse than that, because not only are people wasting their time debating something they understand very little about, they also tend to get extremely emotional about it (i.e. unnecessarily upset when things aren’t going their way).
The truth is, politics really changes very little in our day-to-day lives, despite the constant insistence of pundits from every side that the world is literally about to come to end because of , and this time it’s for real.
But in almost all cases, first of all things likely won’t get either substantially better or substantially worse regardless of who’s in office, and second, your getting involved is likely going to do little to nothing to change the outcome. So it makes much more sense to just focus on your own life and the people you love and work on things you can actually make a difference about.
Before you can improve something, you need to have a clear understanding on its current state and if you don’t hate the current state of affairs, you can’t be insightful and objective enough to be of any help.
Hard disagree.
The most effective and insightful critics of a thing are the ones who love that thing (e.g. a good theater critic loves theater).
If you don’t love your society in spite of all of its flaws, then you aren’t in the right headspace to contribute to fixing it. You can’t be trusted to do so with care.
That doesn’t really apply to a system that’s corrupt by design, though. All of the people who love the political system the most are the same ones that benefit from the corrupt status quo persisting.
Loving the society/country in general ≠ loving the political system. A great example would be patriots like Michael Moore tirelessly working to expose the rot so that it can be fixed rather than continue to destroy the society/country.
You need someone who loves the country but hates the corruption of the system.
Society != government.
Usually they are not even related at all. Rebellions, partisans, civil wars, etc etc.
Correct. I fell for this trap for years, thinking I was making a difference getting engaged in political arguments. The truth is, I gained very little from this. While it might feel good to put your opinion out there (and practice defending it), the truth is, most people understand little to nothing about how the system works, so most of that time will literally go to waste.
In fact, it will probably be worse than that, because not only are people wasting their time debating something they understand very little about, they also tend to get extremely emotional about it (i.e. unnecessarily upset when things aren’t going their way).
The truth is, politics really changes very little in our day-to-day lives, despite the constant insistence of pundits from every side that the world is literally about to come to end because of , and this time it’s for real.
But in almost all cases, first of all things likely won’t get either substantially better or substantially worse regardless of who’s in office, and second, your getting involved is likely going to do little to nothing to change the outcome. So it makes much more sense to just focus on your own life and the people you love and work on things you can actually make a difference about.